Sunday, 26 May 2013

Not my house no, though that does actually need one....but the blog!I asked my daughter to draw the ladies for an egg box label, (she's off to Uni to study Illustration, owns has a drawing tablet and lots of exotic drawing programmes. I'm still a pencil & paper kinda gal). We chose Ruby, Peggy & Annie as we decided their colours would look the most striking together, rather than cram all six of them on. Annie's markings caused her all sorts of problems, I decided not to ask what draft this finally was...I liked it so much I thought I'd put it on the blog but it didn't quite go with the wood effect. I thought it didn't go with quite a lot of the themes I tried. Many theme variations later, I went with white.It looks a bit stark, I'm not decided, you might see it change until I finally make up my mind.I love the picture though <3

Sunday, 19 May 2013

It was delightfully sunny today, so I figured I'd let Annie have a wander around the garden.

She was beside herself, trying to scoff anything that would fit into that little beak of hers.

I guess she's been hatched in an incubator and raised under heat, as her 'big hen etiquette' needed a bit of work. Trying to extract that juicy bit of sweetcorn from Violet's beak, was never going to be a good move.

Luckily it was Violet and she was just sent her on her way with a quick scolding.

Chickie has now learnt to be mindful of the ladies...

Only Ruby had a good peck and grumble about Chickie, she is very protective of her No3 status.

Annie strikes a pose for the camera

Chickie tried to dust bath in the grass, so I picked her up and popped her in the official dust bathing spot.

She sat still for a while...

...then there was no stopping her!

Violet strolled by, looking gargantuan and cast me a look that said "You ok'd this right?".

Thursday, 2 May 2013

When I think about how long and hard I considered every minute detail when designing my coop, I'm always pleased I decided to put more than one nest box in. Researching through countless poultry books and on chicken forums, discovering recommended hen to nest box ratios.I would hate to think of them having to cram into just one...

...sigh...

Turfing them out and locking the door so they could enjoy the rare spring sunshine wasn't entirely successful either.